TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Internet Slang 101: Troll

By Aegon01 at 1/29/2012 09:55:00 PM

Troll: One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument

Example: "Don't listen to him, he's just trolling. It's obvious from the way he said the Jews caused 9/11."

Dawnfire82What, the rest of you thought that Christopher Chambers stopped coming here and pissing people off on purpose out of the goodness of his heart?I did notice he stopped commenting here. I have on occasion read his blog, which features much better writing and arguments than his comments here did.

I applied a similar tactic to a troll here, who among other things had predicted a gain of 20 House seats in 2010 for the Pubs- "mark my words"- which was one of the troll's more reasonable comments. After the election, when the troll commented here, I linked to the "mark my words" comment.

In reply, the troll implied there was something wrong with me for having remembered "mark my words." Whatever. As far as I can tell, the troll hasn't been back, so it worked.

I wonder if Chris Chambers has deleted the trollish quotes comments from his blog.